True crime · 14.01.1919
The killings in the Credit Society cellar
On 14 January 1919, as the Red Army prepared to leave Tartu, the Bolshevik secret police killed 19 prisoners held in the cellar of the Credit Society building at Kompanii 3. Many were beaten or stabbed before they were shot. The dead included the Orthodox Bishop Platon, two priests, two Lutheran professors of theology, landowners and town councillors. The guards left their posts the same day, and with the help of townspeople about 200 other prisoners escaped. The cellar was rebuilt as a memorial chapel, consecrated in 1931, and Bishop Platon and the two priests were later declared saints.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
14. jaanuaril 1919, kui Punaarmee valmistus Tartust lahkuma, tappis bolševike salapolitsei Kompanii 3 asuva Krediidikassa maja keldris 19 vangi. Paljusid peksti või torgati enne mahalaskmist. Hukatute seas olid õigeusu piiskop Platon, kaks preestrit, kaks luterliku usuteaduse professorit, mõisnikud ja linnavolikogu liikmed. Valvurid lahkusid samal päeval postidelt ja linnaelanike abiga põgenes umbes 200 vangi. Kelder ehitati ümber mälestuskabeliks, mis pühitseti 1931. aastal, ning piiskop Platon ja kaks preestrit kuulutati hiljem pühakuks.
Source: Wikipedia: Tartu Credit Center massacre; memorial plaque at Kompanii 3. ↗